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The article presents the determinants of creating candidate lists in European Parliament elections in Poland. Its subject context is the evaluation of importance of selected factors with reference to the effect obtained in the election. The main study hypothesis assumes different patterns of creating candidate lists in EP elections in comparison to parliamentary elections, involving the combined occurrence of several determinants. The first of them is the tendency to fill the highest positions in candidate lists with popular people well-known in the media, who have an advantage over anonymous ones. The second factor is territorial bonds connecting candidates with the electoral district where they stand for election. Another determinant taken into consideration is the territorial form of the candidate list. The last important element of analysis is the concentration of support, determined by the position on the candidate list.
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The purpose of this article is to present the scope of authority of party leaders in selected Polish political parties. The study included the following parties: Civic Platform (PO), Law and Justice (PiS) party, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Polish Peasants’ Party (PSL), Your Movement (TR), Right Wing of the Republic Polish (PR), the New Right (NP) and the Greens. The article addresses the problem of electing a leader of party. The importance of exclusive competence (the powers that belong only to a leader) of the leaders of the Polish party is analyzed. The leader of party may on their grounds decide in certain areas of action of the party. This applies in particular to internal structure, staffing party, the nomination of candidates for election as well as disciplining party members. In most of the subjected parties the leaders have a broad range of rights including the exclusive character. According to the author, some of these powers undermine democratic nature of the party structure.
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During the quarter-century of democracy in Poland, most of the parliamentary par-ties had a post-communist or post-Solidarity origin. Only three formations without links to the two sides of the Round Table agreement – League of Polish Families (LPR), Self-Defence (Samoobrona) and Palikot’s Movement (Ruch Palikota, now: Your Move) – have achieved political relevance. The analysis of their road to parliament helps to cap-ture the specificity of the success of genuinely new parties in Poland. The factors that affect high electoral support for the aforementioned three parties were: advantageous configuration in Polish party system, strong leadership and articula-tion of new issues or neglected demands (exploitation of new community division and filling an ideological niche). The fate of LPR and Samoobrona confirms that the last factor seems to be crucial for the success of genuinely new party.
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The party system and the parties within it were ones of the relevant elements of system transformation in Poland. We can identify several significant determinants of the process with regard to this area. The first of them is formal standards and their influence on the course of political competition. The second is the functions attributed to political parties in the political and party system. The third one is connected with the significance of social structure’s specificity and its influence on voting behaviors. The fourth determinant is the models of competition at the cabinet level. The paper presents these four determinants of development of political parties and the party system in Poland in the perspective of democratization processes.
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The emergence of new party should be an answer for voters’ demand on new political initiatives. Since the beginning of the 21th century we have been faced with lack of representativeness of political parties. In addition, there is weak party identification among Polish electorate. The empirical research presented in this article proves that the portion of electorate expecting an emergence of new party is increased. However, the Polish voters don’t believe that potential new parties can reach the relevant position in party system. The results of Palikot Movement (currently: Your Move) in parliamentary election 2011 and the Congress of the New Right in this year’s European Parliament election shows that appropriate political program can bring about a success of new political formation.
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The article aims to explain the phenomenon of parliamentary party switching in the context of political strategy. Switching parties by legislators during the term is often seen as an opportunistic behavior, focused on obtaining attractive places on electoral party lists. The paper’s goals are to determine if the legislators’ will to switch parties is correlated with the party public support and, finally, if the deputies truly have better chances of winning reelection if they switch parties.
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The political system transformation initiated in 1989 brought about dramatic changes in the functioning of local and regional government structures. The dimension of their political and social empowerment manifests itself through their own electoral cycle in the form of local government elections. The article is an attempt to expound the specificity of local elections in Poland. The factors behind this specificity indicate the restoration processes of local government, on-going decentralization processes, active use of mechanisms for implementing local government electoral law and the growing significance of elections at the local and regional level. These features make the local elections stand out from the parliamentary, presidential and European Parliament elections.
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The aim of this article was to analyze the factors that influenced the creation and subsequent activity of the Civic Platform Spokesperson Team in the years 2006–2007. The subject of research was also the genesis of the institution of the Shadow Cabinet and presentation of circumstances surrounding the creation of the Civic Platform. The author's research intention was also to provide answers to the following questions: did the Team of Spokespersons contribute to an increase in public support for Civic Platform in the early parliamentary elections of 2007; did the activity of the Civic Platform's Shadow Cabinet improve the organisation of the political party's communication activities with its external environment, and did it lead to an increase in its advantage over its competitors?
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Celem artykułu była analiza czynników warunkujących powstanie, a następnie działalność Zespołu Rzeczników Platformy Obywatelskiej w latach 2006–2007. Przedmiotem dociekań naukowych były również geneza instytucji gabinetu cieni oraz przedstawienie okoliczności dotyczących utworzenia Platformy Obywatelskiej. Zamierzeniem badawczym autora było również udzielenie odpowiedzi na następujące pytania: czy Zespół Rzeczników przyczynił się do wzrostu poparcia społecznego dla PO w przedterminowych wyborach parlamentarnych w 2007 r.?; czy działalność gabinetu cieni PO poprawiła sposób organizacji działań komunikacyjnych partii politycznej z jej otoczeniem zewnętrznym oraz czy doprowadziła do zwiększenia przewagi nad konkurentami?
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Samoobrona RP jako partia polityczna przez wiele lat była fenomenem na polskiej scenie politycznej. Okres jej świetności przypada na pierwsze lata XXI w. W wyborach w 2007 r. partia poniosła klęskę i straciła reprezentację w parlamencie. Tym niemniej do tego momentu była formacją, która zdobyła znaczące poparcie społeczne, a nawet weszła do rządu. Artykuł przedstawia wizje organizacji państwa polskiego propagowane przez Samoobronę. To właśnie te projekty zapewniały jej do pewnego okresu sukcesy polityczne. Populistyczny charakter programu Samoobrony był równocześnie jedną z przyczyn upadku tej partii.
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The Self-Defense Party of the Republic of Poland was for many years a phenomenon on the Polish political scene. Its hayday was in the first years of the twenty-first century. However, the party suffered electoral defeat in the 2007 elections and lost representation in parliament. Up to that point it had been able to attract significant public support, and even contributed to the make-up of the government. The article presents the vision of the Polish state propagated by the Self-Defense Party. It was that vision that helped it to a period of political successes. The populist nature of the Self-Defense programme was at the same time one of the reasons for the party’s collapse.
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